Google is apologizing after a controversial definition of “Jew” made its way onto the search engine Tuesday.
“Jew” was defined as a verb meaning to “bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.”
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The word’s origin was “in reference to old stereotypes associating Jewish people with trading and money lending.”
That definition was available Tuesday morning and remained so until roughly 1 p.m.
Our apologies. Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts. We only display offensive definitions by default if they are the main meaning of a term. As this is not the case here, we have blocked this & passed along feedback to the partner for further review.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 27, 2022
Google officials apologized on behalf of the search engine for the posting.
“Our apologies,” Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan tweeted.
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“Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts. We only display offensive definitions by default if they are the main meaning of a term. As this is not the case here, we have blocked this & passed along feedback to the partner for further review.”
